PREFACE 



IN the following pages Mr. Wheeley gives a 

 practical account of the modern methods of taking 

 coarse fish, with special reference to the Thames. 



'The chapters on perch and pike have been in- 

 cluded to render the work complete, though a later 

 volume of the Library, contributed by Mr. A. Jar- 

 dine, deals exclusively with those fish. 



The flounder, though ostensibly a sea-fish, finds 

 appropriate place in any work on river, particularly 

 tidal, fishing ; and the concluding chapter on Thames 

 trout gives the latest methods practically coarse- 

 fishing of taking that remarkable fish. The Editors 

 have to acknowledge some assistance in connection 

 with the illustrations, their thanks being more par- 

 ticularly due to Messrs. Allcock and Bartleet of 

 Redditch, Cummins of Bishop Auckland, Farlow 

 of London, Hardy Bros, of Alnwick, and Watson 

 and Hancock of London. 



F. G. A. 



H. M. 



